Free advice: Don't try to rob a hooker.

**500grains** · 10-28-10, 10:28

Prosecutor: Teenager picked wrong transvestite prostitute to rob

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/2...foiled-robbery

Sixteen-year-old Rufus Bowman was looking for an easy victim, but he picked the wrong one during a July 13 incident.

Bowman was in the 200 block of West McMicken Avenue in Over-the-Rhine when, Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor Ryan Nelson said, he approached Joshua Bumpus.

"Mr. Bumpus is a transvestite prostitute," Nelson said. "He goes 6-(foot)-3, 280 (pounds) and was wearing a pink halter top and pumps." "(Bowman) approached Mr. Bumpus and, according to Mr. Bumpus, was trying to retain his services," Nelson said. The two men went into a nearby alley to transact business, Nelson said, when Bowman pulled a gun. The two men fought. The 5-foot-7, 230-pound Bowman fired his gun. The bullet hit Bumpus in the arm, went through and lodged near his ribs.

Even though he was shot, Bumpus continued fighting - and won. "He got the gun away from (Bowman), he grabbed (Bowman) by the hair and beat him down. He beat the (daylights) out of him," Nelson said. That's about when several of Bumpus' friends, also dressed as women, flagged down Cincinnati Police Officer Dave Kennedy. Other Bumpus friends helped Bumpus beat Bowman.

"The cops showed up during the beat down," Nelson said. "The cops said it was one of their more memorable arrests of their lives."

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**13F3OL7** · 10-28-10, 15:28

Um, why mess with someone the size of an NFL lineman, regardless of "gender"?

**boggyboy72** · 10-28-10, 16:14

Originally Posted by 13F3OL7

Um, why mess with someone the size of an NFL lineman, regardless of "gender"?

That's what I was thinking.

**Complication** · 10-28-10, 16:18

Originally Posted by 13F3OL7

Um, why mess with someone the size of an NFL lineman, regardless of "gender"?

Because it's Cincinnati... and everyone down there is f'd up in the head.

**skyugo** · 10-28-10, 16:29

oh man...
there is so much strangeness in that story

**boggyboy72** · 10-28-10, 18:13

Originally Posted by Complication

Because it's Cincinnati... and everyone down there is f'd up in the head.

Well,Jerry Springer was the Mayor of Cincinnati for a while.

**Moose-Knuckle** · 10-28-10, 19:09

Either way society loses. . .

To bad they didn't punch each other's ticket.

**jklaughrey** · 10-28-10, 19:47

C'mon now I used to see Trannies everyday in W. Hollywood as a kid. Never once did it cross my mind that they would be easy to rob. Now a few Marine friends thought they actually were women and tried to purchase service even though I told them they were dudes. Guess some people have to figure the "package check" for themselves. LOL, at least it was in Cincy and not Cleveland. Cleveland has enough problems from what I hear from my cousin.